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trim support external thunderbolt ssd (Mojave)

I was under the (mis?)impression that under Mojave, TRIM was supported for external SSDs connected via Thunderbolt.


I have a 2015 27" iMac running 10.14.3, with a Thunderbolt 2 enclosure with a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. System report says that TRIM is NOT supported.


Is there something I need to do to turn on TRIM on the external SSD?

iMac 27", 10.14

Posted on Feb 2, 2019 4:56 PM

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Posted on Feb 3, 2019 3:34 AM

This should work. In macOS Terminal enter the following command:

sudo trimforce enable


It will prompt for a password (must be administrator to do this) and it

should enable TRIM on all third party drives.


Note that this will not work on USB devices.

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trim support external thunderbolt ssd (Mojave)

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